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being met with in fmall flocks in the winter feafon, as well as in
marfh lands in the neighbourhood o f the fea, Sometimes lent up
to the London markets, where I have bought them, and thought
their flefh to be well flavoured. Their fummer refidence is no
doubt to the northward, fince they are met with in Sweden, and
other parts*, and are in plenty in Ruffia and Sibiria. Inhabits
alfo the province of New Tork t- Shane .calls his bird a Curlew,
but fays the bill is ftraitj and no doubt means this very fpecies:
that it is in Jamaica is certain, as I have received it from
thence.
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SPOTTED
SNIPE.
Scolopax totanus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 245. 12.—j W N° l ',7— Muller, 187.
— Georgi Rei/e, 17 1.
Totanus alter, Raii Syn. p. 106. u .—Will. Orn. p. 299.
Barker, Alb in, Si. pi. 71?
Spotted Redfliank, Br, Zool. N° 186.
Description. of the Grecnjhmk. The head of a pale afh-colour,
marked with oblong ftreaks of black: back dulky, varied
with triangular white fpots : wing coverts afh-coloured, fpot-
ted rn the fame manner : quills dulky : breaft, belly, and thighs,
white; the firft thinly fpotted with black : the middle feathers of
Place.
the tail afh-coloured; the fide feathers whitilh, barred with
black : legs long, and of a bright red.
Inhabits various parts of the continent of Europe-, and has been
met with, though rarely, in England,
* Sondmaer, Strom. 235. f Art}. Zool,
Spotted
Spotted Woodcock, Phil. Tran/, .vol, lxii. p. 410.
Spotted Snipe, Aril. Zool. N° 374.
Lev. Muf.
H I S is larger and longer than the Greenjhank: in length
near fixteen inches. The bill more than two inches long,
and brown : orbits, chin, and throat, white: from the bill to the
eye a line of white : cheeks and fore part of the neck white,
with Ihort dufky ftreaks: crown and upper part o f the neck
brown, ftreaked with white: wings black, marked with elegant
triangular fpots of white: breaft and belly white : legs long, and
in the living bird of a rich yellow ; fometimes red.
This is found in North Americah and is common at Hudfon’s
Bay: comes into the neighbourhood of Albany fort, the end of
April or beginning of May, and departs the end of September.
Frequents the banks of rivers, feeding on fmall Ihell-filh and
worms. On its return towards the fouth Hops at New Tork for
a time, but proceeds more fouthward, in order to pafs the winter.
The natives call this fpecies Sa-Ja-Jhew -, the Englijh, Tellow-legs,
This, and feveral other fpecies of Snipes and Sandpipers, are called,
in North America, Humilities*,
My fpecimen feems ftronger marked; with left white about
the head than in the above, and the fpots on the wings very dif-
tindt; but the prime quills are dulky, and not fpotted: the bill
is two inches and a quarter long, brown, lhaped exaftly as that
of the Greenjhank: the legs yellowilh brown. I received this
from Hudjon’s Bay, and efteem it as differing in fex only from the
laft defcribed.
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■ V ar. A.
D escription.
Place and
Manners.
* Ar&. Zool.
Scolopax